Eric Lebrun completed his studies at the Conservatoire of Paris. He graduated with the highest honours including a first prize in the organ class of Michel Chapuis. In 1990 was named titular organist of the Cavaillé-Coll instrument at the Parisian church Saint Antoine des Quinze-Vingts. There he recorded the complete organ works of Jehan Alain, Maurice Duruflé and César Franck as well as making several broadcasts for France-Musique.

He has given the inaugural performance of compositions for organ, some written especially for him. As a composer, Lebrun has composed works ranging from solo violin pieces to large-scale oratorio.

After teaching at the Conservatory of Fontainebleau and at the Sorbonne, Eric Lebrun founded the Didactic class at the National Superior Conservatoire of Music in Paris. He is professor of organ at the Regional Conservatoire at Saint-Maur des Fossés and regularly gives master classes throughout Europe, the U.S.A. and Mexico. In 2006 he wrote a biography of Dietrich Buxtehude (published by Bleu-Nuit). He subsequently recorded, with Marie-Ange Leurent, Buxtehude’s complete organ works (Bayard- Musique) which received the Grand Prix du Disque de Académie Charles Cros. He also recorded the organ works of Boëly which was accompanied by a biography of the composer written in collaboration with Brigitte François-Sappey.

In 2010 his Vingt Mystères du Rosaire, opus 10 was published and his double album of Franz Liszt’s works was released. In 2011 he gave the inaugural concert of his Suite for organ, opus 18 at the church of Saint Eustache in Paris. The year 2012 saw the publication of his monograph of César Franck (Bleu-Nuit). His organ class at Saint-Maur joined the Superior Pole of Excellence 93 in June 2015. In December of the same year he was named honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Music of Aarhus, Denmark. In 2016 he published a new biography of JS Bach (Bleu-Nuit), followed by biographies of Debussy (2018) and Fauré (2023). In 2018, Eric Lebrun received the title “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres”.